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The Spouter's Companion [T114672]

DMI number:

1400

Publication Date:

1770

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T114672

EEBO/ECCO link:

n/a

Shelfmark:

Bod Harding A 1435

Full Title:

THE | Spouter's Companion; | OR, | THEATRICAL REMEMBRANCER: | CONTAINING | A Select Collection of the most esteemed | PROLOGUES and EPILOGUES | WHICH HAVE BEEN SPOKEN | By the most celebrated PERFORMERS. | TOGETHER WITH | VARIETY of CURIOUS ORIGINALS, | Written on Purpose for this WORK: | AMONG WHICH ARE | Several PROLOGUES and EPILOGUES, | To be spoken in the Characters of | BLOODS, BUCKS, CHOICE SPIRITS, | FRIBBLES, BRAVOS, &c. | TOGETHER WITH | A NEW PROLOGUE ON EPILOGUES, | AND | An EPILOGUE ON PROLOGUES. | To which is added, | The SPOUTER'S MEDLEY: | Containing select Parts of the most celebrated Comedies and | Tragedies, contrasted in such a Manner as to render their | Assemblage extremely diverting to the Readers, Speakers, | and Hearers. | TOGETHER WITH | The SPOUTING-CLUB in an UPROAR, | OR THE | BATTLE of SOCKS and BUSKINS. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [double rule] | LONDON: Printed for J. COOKE, at [i]Shakespeare's Head, | Paternoster-Row:[/i] And sold by T. LEWIS, [i]Great Russel-Street, | Covent-Garden; and[/i] R. MARINER, in [i]Compton-Street, Soho.[/i] | [PRICE ONE SHILLING.]

Epigraph:

[i]Ye Lovers of Thespis, a Table is spread, | To feast you in Taste at the fam'd[/i] Shakespeare's Head: | [i]Then come and regale on our high season'd Books, | Dish'd out and serv'd up by your Caterer,[/i] Cooke. | [i]Here's Humour and Wit ready dress'd for your Ease, | So chuse as ye fancy, and spout as ye please.[/i]